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Users / Adding a hard drive

« on: September 30, 2010, 08:30:37 am »

This might sound like a silly topic but how do I add a hard drive to LinuxMCE?

I have 1TB of blu-ray quality video on an external drive but i'm not sure how to include it into LinuxMCE. I've tried running the LinuxMCE setup again, the only section I could imagine it might appear under would be "Other A/V devices" but it's not there. Also, it's NTFS, is that a suitable format? I hope so because I don't have another terabyte anywhere to place the files while I change the format!

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Users / Re: Screen resolution

« on: September 30, 2010, 05:43:03 am »

Thanks for your responses!

I followed the instructions at that link posted by b4arney, I added the -96dpi line but there was no noticable change.

The first thing I did which allowed at least some of the menu text and window content to be readable was Kmenu>System Settings>Apperance>Fonts and cranked the size up.

The window titles and lots of text in applications were still unreadable.

I went back to Kmenu>System Settings>Apperance>Fonts and this time changed Force Fonts DPI to 96. This resulted in more areas of text being more clearly visable. The most important to me being the internet browser menu's when going online in LinuxMCE.

There are still resolution problems with window title text (the name of the window in KDE at the top middle) and the desktop is still not right but now it seems I can clearly view all the parts of LinuxMCE which for the moment is my main concern. I will look into changing the DPI in xorg next and see what effect that has.

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Users / Re: Keyboard - DVD contols

« on: September 30, 2010, 04:13:00 am »

Perfect! Thanks heaps!! I'm dying to get a remote control now or at least try to configure the HDhomerun to accept control signals.

I've set MythTV to "commercial flag new recordings", is there a control to skip to the flag after the commercials? If i press the right button it seems to skip a set 30 seconds or so.

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Users / Re: Client speaks protocol version 50 but we speak 56

« on: September 30, 2010, 04:08:18 am »

Cheers!

You're right saying there will be problems running Myth-setup through the KDE desktop, i'm very happy to have found the setup button in the computing menu.

MythTV is amazing, so many options, makes life much easier!

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Users / Re: Keyboard - DVD contols

« on: September 29, 2010, 05:04:08 am »

The same applies for TV. If I left click I get Mute and Pause/Play but nothing else.

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Users / Re: Client speaks protocol version 50 but we speak 56

« on: September 29, 2010, 05:03:04 am »

Even with the snapshot I get the same brown/gray screen with tiny text when using Kmenu>search: mythTV>Mythbackendsetup. BUT when i run "computing" from LinuxMCE there is a MythTV backend configuration button which work fine! AT LAST I'M WATCHING TV!!!

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Users / Screen resolution

« on: September 29, 2010, 04:19:59 am »

I'm using nVidia 8400 and a cheap Plasma over HDMI. I setup the resolution for LinuxMCE using the wizard, everything looks great. The problem arises when changing to KDE Desktop.

The resolution settings are wrong, everything is too small. First I started Kmenu>Settings>Display and changed the resolution to what looked like the next lowest. As soon as it switched, my monitor could no longer display the image, I didn't click anything but it never reverted back.

I used terminal to reboot and again I can see the KDE Desktop but it's resolution is wrong, but now when I select the Kmenu>settings>display (also Kmenu>applications>system>ScreenResize&Rotate) it appears to remember what I changed the resolution to last time,immediatly revert, and again i'm stuck with no input.

I want to know if-
1. There is a solution to the Display application not reverting to the previous resolution when nothing is clicked and if it's possable to change it's default back to something that my monitor can accept.


2. If Display will not revert back, I may need to switch the output over to VGA and try change the settings on a monitor. If this is the case, how can I switch the output from HDMI to VGA? Windows is a simple Fn key, is there anything like that in Kubuntu? Keep in mind I have only a very basic understanding of Kubuntu so please try to explain in layman's terms.

Cheers

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Users / Keyboard - DVD contols

« on: September 29, 2010, 02:25:06 am »

As my first test of LinuxMCE, I put a DVD into the drive. It worked straight away which is good but the only control I have is by right clicking the mouse, which gives me a mute button and a play/pause button. Without a separate orbiter or MCE remote, how do i use other controls (ff, rew, subtitles, volume, EXIT!). I can't even stop the DVD and pressing the button on the front of the drive has no effect

::At least using the eject command means I don't have to keep watching this terrible movie!

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Users / Re: Errors found in 152 lines. Snapshot install

« on: September 29, 2010, 02:21:08 am »

Cheers for the help guys!

I removed the released version and installed the snapshot and so far so good.

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Users / Errors found in 152 lines. Snapshot install

« on: September 28, 2010, 03:06:12 pm »

I just downloaded a recent iso snapshot, created a boot disk and when I booted from it I chose "check the disk for errors". It reports "Errors found in 152 files!". Is this a problem?

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Users / Re: Client speaks protocol version 50 but we speak 56

« on: September 26, 2010, 09:00:52 pm »

Cheers for the advice.

I've spent quite alot of time installing and setting up the stable release, to remove it all and start over doesn't seem right. I've done the upgrade but i'll give it another shot. If i'm still having problems after that, i'll try a snapshot.

Thanks

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Users / Re: Client speaks protocol version 50 but we speak 56

« on: September 26, 2010, 01:13:25 pm »

Nobody with any suggestions?

I'm not sure how to do it, but I will try to remove mythTV completely and re-install. Otherwise, I was given a choice at LinuxMCE setup for either MythTV or something different, perhaps I should make that other selection, can't remember exactly what it was.

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Users / Re: Client speaks protocol version 50 but we speak 56

« on: September 22, 2010, 07:10:10 am »

I'm pretty slow with Linux but it's a good learning process. While spending the last few weeks trying to get LinuxMCE to work in any basic way i've been watching TV on my laptop using the one-click-run windoze 7 media centre lol.

I when I run either MythTVfrontend or backend I get a brown/gray screen with tiny unreadable text on it. Last week while playing with network and graphics settings both back and front setups started working, I even saw 2 seconds of TV play before it crashed but for some reason im back to the tiny text.

I have had a look at the mythbackend.log and this is what I got. Can anyone give me suggestions on what may be going wrong? Any help would be much appreciated!


 

GNU nano 2.0.7                File: mythbackend.log

2010-09-21 12:00:15.721 MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 50 but $
2010-09-21 12:00:15.726 MainServer, Warning: Unknown socket closing MythSocket(0x9527fd0)
2010-09-21 12:00:15.849 MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 50 but $
2010-09-21 12:00:15.854 MainServer, Warning: Unknown socket closing MythSocket(0x951d340)
2010-09-21 12:00:22.850 mythbackend version: tags/release-0-23 [23227M] www.mythtv.org
2010-09-21 12:00:22.856 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2010-09-21 12:00:22.859 Using configuration directory = /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv
2010-09-21 12:00:22.861 Empty LocalHostName.
2010-09-21 12:00:22.865 Using localhost value of dcerouter
2010-09-21 12:00:22.878 New DB connection, total: 1
2010-09-21 12:00:22.883 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-09-21 12:00:22.884 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2010-09-21 12:00:22.889 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-09-21 12:00:22.897 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1254
2010-09-21 12:00:22.899 MythBackend: Starting up as the master server.
2010-09-21 12:00:22.904 New DB connection, total: 2
2010-09-21 12:00:22.906 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-09-21 12:00:22.910 Card 1 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.

2010-09-21 12:00:22.913 Card 2 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.

2010-09-21 12:00:22.917 Card 3 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.

2010-09-21 12:00:22.921 Card 4 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.

2010-09-21 12:00:22.925 Card 5 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.

2010-09-21 12:00:22.930 Card 6 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.

2010-09-21 12:00:22.933 Card 7 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.

2010-09-21 12:00:22.937 Card 8 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.

2010-09-21 12:00:22.946 New DB connection, total: 3
2010-09-21 12:00:22.948 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-09-21 12:00:23.000 New DB scheduler connection

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Users / Re: Client speaks protocol version 50 but we speak 56

« on: September 19, 2010, 02:32:11 pm »

The current DVD/iso install from the linuxMCE webpage. "LinuxMCE-8.10-i386.iso ". Installation went ok, i've had some network config issues.

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Users / Client speaks protocol version 50 but we speak 56

« on: September 19, 2010, 01:18:18 pm »

Hi all,

I'm very new to this. LinuxMCE reports that "MythTV seems to have died", I often get problems when trying to start mythTV-setup and frontend. Sometimes TV will play for a few seconds, then crash.

Console displays the error "Client speaks protocol version 50 but we speak 56" and "warning unknown socket closing mythsocket".

I assumed that the frontend and backend must be different versions which seemed strange because they were both installed with the same package at the same time. I used
mythbackend --version
mythTV version: 23227M
mythTV branch: tags/release-0-23
Network protocol: 56

mythfrontend --version
mythTV version: 23227M
mythTV branch: tags/release-0-23
Network protocol: 56


They seem to be the same. Does anyone have any idea why i'm still getting this message?